GONZO, LLC

The GATE team is a close-knit group with a world-class reputation. Our research partners include large organisation such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Bertelsmann, British Telecom and the BBC, and are located in cities as diverse as Athens and Galway, Sofia and Paris. One of our distinctive contributions to the field is to make our results available as open source software that is in use by many of our colleagues in language- and knowledge-related fields. This means we also benefit from strong relationships with leading groups in a number of areas, and from feedback and improvements from users of our software. The tools that we use to support our own work are now quite advanced, and this means that we can move quickly in new projects and new areas of research without continually having to re-invent the wheel. We have a division of labour within the team, so we can each play to our respective strengths. We participate in leading evaluation forums such as ACE, Pascal and TIDES.
Sheffield lies on the Eastern slopes of the Pennine mountain range in the centre of Northern England, with excellent outdoor pursuits very near to the city centre and to the University. Connections to nearby Manchester are excellent, where you can find the best UK nightlife outside London.
These posts will initially be attached to one or more of the following projects:
NeON, a ?13m four year Integrated Project (IP) developing networked ontology lifecycle systems
MediaCampaign, a project working with multimedia analysis
TAO, a project about tranistioning legacy applications to ontology-aware service oriented architectures
PrestoSpace, an ?11m four year Integrated Project (IP) led by Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (the French national multimedia archive) and the BBC, addresses the pressing need to digitise 20th century analog media before they irretrievably decay. Justifying the costs of digitisation requires new models of content access and automated metadata production. SEKT, Semantic Knowledge Technologies, a ?9m three year IP led by British Telecom, will investigate the synergies of Human Language Technology, Data Mining and Ontologies for Knowledge Management.
Four new projects begin in 2006, and successful applicants will be well-placed to work on these beyond their initial contract.

The GATE team is a close-knit group with a world-class reputation. Our research partners include large organisation such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Bertelsmann, British Telecom and the BBC, and are located in cities as diverse as Athens and Galway, Sofia and Paris. One of our distinctive contributions to the field is to make our results available as open source software that is in use by many of our colleagues in language- and knowledge-related fields. This means we also benefit from strong relationships with leading groups in a number of areas, and from feedback and improvements from users of our
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